Use this tag for interoperability with Windows (dual boot, virtual machines, mixed networks, porting software, …)
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how to copy files from windows to linux witout password using a script or program?
I did this to copy files between Windows and Linux.
C:\Documents and Settings\668340\My Documents\putty>pscp "C:\Documents and Settings\563456\abc.txt" "auto_root@10.39.5.41:/home/auto/"
But it ...
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copying files from unix to windows?
Is there any way to automate the process of copying the files between windows and unix
without doing it manually, using tools such as winscp.
I need to copy files from unix to windows such by ...
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Need help configuring Openssh on Win2008 via CYGWIN [closed]
I am trying to configure an OpenSSH server on Windows Server 2008 Datacenter via CYGWIN. I have installed and configured CYGWIN with OpenSSH and Basic LinuxUtils. I am logging onto the system on a ...
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Making a Linux audio recording device available on a Windows 7 PC over network
I would like to use my headset's microphone both on my Linux laptop and a Windows 7 PC simultaneously, for different VoIP applications. I'm currently running Ubuntu with PulseAudio on the laptop to ...
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Looking for information about Linux flaws [closed]
I have just started using Linux-mint 14 and I'm rather new to this. Yet I find this system interesting and the concept of open-source inviting. On the other hand I still have some apprehension from ...
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How to mount Windows shared folder on Redhat
Case::
I have to mount the windows shared folder on redhat directory /mnt or anywhere elese.
This is the Windows shared folder Path
D:\Analytics\Data\DownLoad This path will be mounted on Redhat so ...
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dual booting ubuntu and windows 8. w8 boots through grub shell, but not from menu
I have a laptop, with installations of Ubuntu 12.10, and Windows 8.
Windows 8 was first installed on the system, and Ubuntu was installed afterwards.
During the Ubuntu installation, the installer ...
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Locking Desktop just Like Windows
Whenever I am at work, I would like to lock the computer so my desktop isn't accessible to others. In windows it's trivial, press the Windows+L key.
Is there something similar available in Linux, ...
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Configuring File Associations in Ubuntu with Wine
Related to this question, I have Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I downloaded PlayOnLinux 4.1.9 (the Precise version) and used it to install Microsoft Office 2010 Pro. PlayOnLinux downloaded Wine 1.5.21 and ...
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After removing linux Grub error
I have a dual boot Windows & Linux system. I removed the Linux partition, but after that I am not able to go in to Windows XP. It is not booting. It gives me a GRUB error.
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Use Linux to read contents of Windows encrypted folder
Windows allows the selective encrypting of certain files or folders. I currently have a Windows folder that is set to "encrypt contents to secure data". (The Windows partition is NTFS.)
If I mount ...
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How should I prevent data corruption on an NTFS partition shared by Windows and Linux?
I use Linux for most of the things but I still need Windows sometimes. So, I have Linux Mint 14 and Windows 8 installed (dual-booting) on my computer with the following disk setup:
sda1: The 350 MB ...
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Running Linux from pendrive on Windows natively
I am trying to find a program that allows me to run some linux distribution directly from pendrive, in windows, without the need to access the bios or to have administrator permissions.
I need ...
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What is a datastore especially when considering *nix systems as hosts?
Is it the .vmx files that are created on installing VMWare,
does it differs across Windows and Linux platforms as hosts?
How can we create or browse datastores when the host is Linux or Windows?
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relaying ports to remote pc via vpn
I've got a situation where a remote pcs is vpn'ed to my Ubuntu box, and I'm wondering how I set the Ubuntu box up to redirect calls to specific ports over to the PC.
Any Ideas?
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File system compatible with all OSes?
I use Linux and Mac OS X on a regular basis, and sometimes I have to use Windows. I need to use a flash drive on all three, and I need a filesystem that will work well on all of them. None of the ...
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How can I access (including read and write) a linux file system from a windows machine on the same network [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to share files between Linux and Windows?
I have a Linux virtual machine (Hyper-V) acting as a web server on my network. I would prefer to browse it's file system ...
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Networking with Linux and Windows 7 using Samba
I've installed Samba on my Arch Linux, and I wanted to share files with Windows 7 on other PC via local network. I want it to work both ways, i.e. Windows can read and write freely without any ...
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Don't have write permission in partition
In my PC I have installs Windows7 and then Ubuntu as OSes.
When I try to access other partitions ( E: and F: which I'm using from Winsows7 OS) it get mount without any issue and can read and modify ...
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MySQL server on Ubuntu fails to start after changes made to my.cnf in Windows
I have MySQL 5.5 running on Ubuntu Server 12.10. When I run /etc/init.d/mysql restart, I get the following:
mysql start/running, process 2754
However, when I open /etc/mysql/my.cnf in Windows via a ...
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Backtrack 5 R2 Dual-Boot w/Windows 7 No Longer Loads
A while back, I installed Backtrack 5 R2 to Dual Boot on a Windows 7 PC. It worked fine for a while, but now when I try to load it, the screen gets all messed up (tried to get a picture with my phone, ...
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Remmina doesn't eat keys
Unlike rdesktop, when I press ALT + F4, it doesn't react in the Windows system, but it closes the remmina window.
Any thought?
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Virus 'caught' while using Linux lays dormant, becomes active when login into Windows, can it be?
Can I 'catch' a Windows virus, while using Linux - so it will be saved on my hard drive and start working when I log in to Windows? I know it wouldn't affect the Linux itself. I am using 'Dual boot', ...
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Remote GUI login from Windows machine to Linux machine [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Accessing Linux server from Windows machine in graphical mode via SSH
How I can login to a remote CentOS' GUI from my Windows 7 laptop?
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Resizing of partitions taking too long in Debian 6 installer
I had a Windows 7 PC, with three partitions on it:
The default Windows partition (~300GB in size, primary)
Some system stuff Windows 7 needs (100MB in size, primary)
A partition called Shared, that ...
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Samba share file permissions - users can't open files that I create
I have set up an Ubuntu server (12.04 LTS) for samba file sharing. The problem I'm having has to do with files that I create on the server. Other users can't open them because I created them under a ...
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Triple Boot - Mac, Windows, Backtrack
This was the closest stackexchange site I could find to something of this nature.
Currently, I own a Macbook Pro with a Bootcamp Partition (Win7), a Mac Partition (OS X Lion), and the Recovery ...
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Bash/Korn shell script edited on Windows throws error '…^M: not found'
Some background on the issue:
I am new to scripting and wrote a simple Bash script in Windows using Notepad++.
cxStopAllServicesOnSERVER.sh
#usr/bin/bash
cd "/some/path"
echo "Hi. Logs can be found ...
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Cannot Map W7 Drive to Samba Server: Access Denied
I tried to make separate Samba accounts with different permissions, but now I can't login at all. I tried mapping a network drive from windows 7, and it says access denied every time, even though I'm ...
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How can I create a Windows XP installation USB drive? [closed]
There are two partitions on my hard disk, one is Linux Mint and one is newly formatted. (a simplification)
I have Windows XP installation disks and iso files, however my optical drive isn't working.
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Can't boot Scientific Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Cannot boot Linux Mint after installing Windows (First) and Linux Mint (Second)
I have installed Scientific Linux on my Asus laptop where I already have installed ...
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Adding Windows user to Linux group; possible?
I have a NAS that runs on Linux and I connect to it from my Windows desktop. I noticed that all directory in that drive belongs to user 'root' and group 'root'. That effectively denies me the right to ...
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Extract UNIX dump file in Windows 7
I have a dump-file of the UFS partition created with FreeBSD's dump.
How to view its content and extract some files from it on Windows 7?
Cygwin's restore provides very limited functionality and ...
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Calling java from Bash: “Cannot execute binary file”
I have this simple Bash script:
#!/bin/bash
java -jar ClosureCompiler/compiler.jar --js ../src/typescript.js --js ../src/ts-compiler.js --js_output_file TSCompiler.js
I'm getting this error when I ...
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Linux Mint 13 can't detect SSD &/or Windows 7
I'm a newcomer to Linux OSes in general. I'm trying to install Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon alongside Windows 7. Linux Mint can't seem to see/detect either of my SSDs and because of that, it can't ...
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Unable to access Linux share from a Windows machine with NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME error
On the Linux machine I changed the smb.conf like this:
[john]
path = /root/john/downloads
available = yes
valid users = john
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
The path ...
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Backup & restore from Linux to Windows while Linux is running
I have a lab with some Linux machines, some are Red Hat 5.1 machines installed on HPDL580 HW, and some are Linux installed on BLADE IBM machines.
Also I have laptop computer with Windows XP.
My ...
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Re-installing Windows 7 on a dual boot system with Fedora
At present I have a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Fedora 14. I want to re-install windows 7 but most probably it will replace Fedora's boot loader. I have a lot of things set up on Fedora. I ...
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Different time in Windows and Linux Mint
I installed Linux Mint first on my Acer Aspire 4930 and then dual booted with Windows 7. I see the correct time on Linux Mint but on booting into Windows the time is shifted back by a few hours, even ...
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Unable to add ubuntu to windows domains? using centrify
I'm using this guide to add my linux (10.04 lucid) ubuntu machine to domain.
First I tried using likewise, but couldn't do this apparently due to some compatibility issues with 10.04 kernel. I had ...
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Is it possible to remove Windows 7 from dual-boot?
I have Windows 7 as primary OS with Linux Mint as secondary OS. I am just feeling comfortable with Linux and want to remove Windows from the disk.
Is it possible to remove it without damaging data?
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Accessing Linux server from Windows machine in graphical mode via SSH
I need to access one of my school Linux servers from my home computer that runs Windows. And I need to access graphical desktop (X server) on them remotely, not only shell.
The problem includes 3 ...
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Fastest remote X from Windows
I have the following set up:
|-----------------| |---------------|
| Windows | LAN (or VPN) | Linux box |
| (local machine) | ...
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How to efficiently use Console2 with screen/tmux/byobu?
I'm using Console 2 and msysgit's bash to SSH into my Linux machines. There, I'm using screen (but considering tmux and/or byobu), but currently simply with one single-terminal session per ...
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SLES/OpenSuse dropped packets Hyper-V
We are trying to use SLES 11 running under Microsoft Hyper-V, However approximately 50% of the packets are dropped. This only seems to be a problem with SLES / OpenSuse. When running e.g. Ubuntu, the ...
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ntldr.mod missing from GRUB2
I use Debian Wheezy on EFI motherboard and need ntldr module in GRUB2 to load bootmgr of Windows 7 installer, because the way it starts on its own (apparently, using the boot sector of the USB flash ...
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What is Linux doing differently that allows me to remove/replace files where Windows would complain the file is currently in use?
The example I have is Minecraft. When running Bukkit on Linux I can remove or update the .jar files in the /plugins folder and simply run the 'reload' command.
In Windows, I have to take the whole ...
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Can GRUB2 share the EFI system partition with Windows?
I have an existing Windows 7 GPT installation, which already has a EFI System partition.
I am now trying to install a Linux on a separate harddisk, which is also GPT formatted. I did not find any ...
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ask about diskpart in windows 7 to access file in ubuntu 12.04
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 in VMware 7 as ISO file through Windows 7.
I am having diskpart in Windows 7 with a partition of 21GB of IDE disk.
Whatever, I want to ask about disk partition code to access ...
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SMB Mount To Windows Server Appears to Lock up. Any Ideas?
We are running CentOS 6.3 with all the latest updates. (Attempt to resolve this issue)
The Server I am trying to connect to is a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. Though this applies to our old SBS'03 Box ...
